DBAN looks like it will do what you want:
http://www.dban.org/
But you can't securely erase a drive without writing to every sector,
and that will take time.
More challenging is how to securely dispose of a defective drive. I'd
use a sledgehammer.
Do a cost analysis and maybe a solution for the "safety requirements"
will magically appear. :)
Rod
On 05/11/2012 09:32 AM, Darth Borehd wrote:
> We need a fast way to securely wipe hard drives.
>
> Is there really any way to recover data after doing 1 pass writing
> zeros to every sector? (This is what we are doing now using the free
> version of Active Killbits, but it takes over an hour per hard drive.)
>
> If we repartition and reformat Windows NTFS drives as Ext3, is there
> any way to recover data from them? (We found this method is faster,
> but are not sure if it is as secure as the above.)
>
> The company will not pay for a degausser.
>
> Safety requirements prevent us from doing physical destruction of the
> "sledge-o-matic" variety.
>
> We use a computer recycler, but do not trust them 100% to destroy our
> data. We know for a fact that equipment they get from us sit
> unguarded in a warehouse for months before destruction.
>
> Interested in hearing opinions on this.
>
>
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